West Bromwich Albion 0 - Watford 1

Steve Fereday:

Absolute shite. Tony Pulis you have the imagination of a slug, so as such should have salt put on you. It looked like the players have had enough of it as well. Most of them are also shite.

Peace please bag him and bring in someone who will put out a team that will go forward and have a go, and get rid of the dross we have and bring in decent players.

Good job Peace did not have a cashback bet on Berahino a few months back. That has to be the worst piece of financial business missed in the history of the club. 24 mill on the table, no thanks, sniff helium balloons, eat KFC, don't train, don't run about, miss 2 penalties. Take a bow Albion, the kid is now worth 3 Curly Wurly's and a bottle of Mackeson. A child could have done better business.

And imagine what Pulis could have done with 24 mill. No forget that. Probably a team of 11 defenders all 7 foot tall.

Come on Leicester!!!!

Johno:

Please dont give Pulis another contract! He is totally one dimensional.

Against better sides he can defend and play on the break hoping for a set piece goal. Against weaker opposition he is clueless.

michael mills:

After this poor excuse for a game of football, and whilst sat in never ending traffic chaos, I had the misfortune to hear Pulis on national radio. He said, that we had played well and that he was pleased with his players, and the performance! This guy is one brass necked, media manipulator, who always steamrollers pertinent criticism of his team's performances.

If that was good, God help us all, when it drops below that high standard! As long as the centre half fetisher's reign continues at the Hawthorns, his dire turgid, tripe and dross brand of football will continue. More to the point, what creative, flair type of player would, in their right mind, want to take his chances at the Albion with such a footballing dinosaur as boss?

Pulis has removed every bit of pleasure from my Albion experience. So, so sad. Premiership football at what price? Think we have sold our soul to the devil.

Brendan Clegg:

As is pretty much the norm for us now, we pretty much failed to turn up against a side who setup defensively, had one eye on their cup game next week and were there for the taking.

Usual problems stood out. Balance at left back was awful - there was no chance of Chester supporting play going forward or overlapping. No Poco in the squad again. Bombed out since the assist against united. There really is no justification for it. I cannot overstate how much this affects us.

McClean was absolutely terrible in terms of quality. Miles off it.

Up front Saido spent a lot of time too deep and Rondon suffered from terrible service although he appeared to be at 70% again.

It's tricky to even judge our strikers - often we are so bad on the ball from deep, through midfield or from wide that they can be absolved of any blame. At the same time you have to question whether they make intelligent movement enough or are alert to those rare moments when we do put a decent ball in - perhaps they are as bored and disengaged as the rest of us?

Of course we had loads of possession but there were few shots on target and lots of hoof ball.

Saido should've scored the pens but there was more than that to this game. Should Gomez have been sent off for the first? Nobody is saying it? Why?

The subs were too late and not great. I was calling for McManaman but he HAS to play on the right. He is all pace - put him on his strong foot and move the 2 footed Sess left.

Big Vic ensured we kept the same failing tactics of the preceding 70 minutes.

The introduction of Gardner instead of Leko with 10 to go was this season's Baird versus Arsenal moment - as brilliantly retold on this site by Kev Buckley. Why? Why? Why?

West Ham fans last year were warned last year to be careful what they wish for. Surely there is no better job for Moyes than ours?

• Foster - 7 one remarkable save, not much else to do.
• Daws - 6 did Ok but we know his limits.
• GMac - 6 solid enough. Too quick to hoof it.
• Evans - 6 decent but didn't seem to have his foot on the gas.
• Chester - 6 plugged away, not his fault he's out of position but offered nothing on the overlap.
• Sess - 7 100% of our best attacking play went through him. Pass made one pen and won the other. Not everything came off but our only threat again.
• Yacob - 6 solid, rusty on the ball.
• Fletcher - 7 started slowly but got up to speed and tried to drive us on. Initially was too percentage happy but simply had too few passing options as game wore on.
• Howling Mad McClean - 3 ran his legs off as per but quality was as bad as it gets.
• Saido - 5 it's not the penalties that bother me it was the work rate and movement.
• Rondon - 5 supplied little and offered little.

• Mcmanaman - 4 out of position and some terrible supply from McClean didn't help either.
• Vic - 5 did chuck himself about but nothing of note.
• Gardner - 4 what was it all about?

Cannock Steve:

Watched Pulis's post match comments in disbelief, if he thought we played well he was watching a different game to me. we were slow, passing was terrible, he mentioned 40 crosses into the box but apart from one cross onto G-Macs head the quality of final ball was league 2. McClean in particular was awful, didn't attack his man always looking to check back inside or stopped on the half way line when we had the chance to break. Only blameless players were Sessegnon who at least had a go at his man, Foster who apart from picking the ball out of the net had zero to do and the referee who for once kindly donated 2 penalties the 2nd of which was debatable. Rondon was anonymous, couldn't trap a bag of cement but did show his pace when his number came up to be subbed, never seen a player move so fast to get off the pitch. They were two terrible soft side footed placed penalties from Saido, who looks a shadow of his former self after his 2 pathetic attempts on goal last week I wouldn't play him again this season.

I stopped having season ticket when Irvine was appointed and this year ive been against Watford Away, Port Vale, Southampton, Bristol C, Peterborough, Villa, Norwich, Watford its just so dull and uninspiring even yesterday there was no atmosphere, either the style of football or fear of defeat and relegation has killed it inside the Hawthorns. Whoever is our manager next season, and I do hope it is Pulis for survivals sake needs to invest heavily in the squad, we need hungry fresh faces, pace, creativity and please god full backs in full back positions or we will be next years Villa if we stick with this squad of players. ha ha. even mentioning them made me smile to myself and cheered me up. life aint all bad goodbye and good riddance Aston Villa.

Didcot Baggie:

Teams like Watford and Norwich must look at fixtures at the Hawthorns with a real sense of hope - they know we never perform against them. I am tired of walking down Halfords Lane with my head in hands wondering why I bother.

Others have said it all - woeful performance by a team that has somehow, against its best efforts, managed to get 40 points. Everyone tells me that we are safe, but I can't see us winning another game this season and I can imagine Norwich and Sunderland will. If we scrape 17th we will be lucky at this rate.

Fed up. But as my mate who is a Villa fan says, "Fed up? How do you think I feel".

BilneyBoinger:

I have to give some balance to the views already expressed.

West Brom have reached 40 points. Aston Villa are in the Championship as are Birmingham and Wolves. All have potentially larger fan bases and stadiums.

This was not a classic, but no one would say we played badly. We didn't. They set up well to defend and we lacked in a few areas. Saido, who should be blamed for ruining our season with his complete ineptitude for most of the season, had a good first half and his link up play was what it used to be. I did not see him against Palace but he still is only in the team because Morrison is injured.

The looking of Sess, Saido and Rondon looked promising. The much hailed McManaman was showing why he has not started under Pulis. Although Chester offers little going forward he marks well and did not leave the gaping gap left by "Poco Baby" as he did twice against Peterboroough.

Imagine what that team would have done this season with 26 goals between two forwards like Igalo and Deaney? We would be in top 10. Saido playing as he was paid to do could have put us in that position. Strong defence and a clinical attack with pace down at least one side.

Yesterday we missed Morrison and Brunt for the assists that statistically that have both provided in large numbers over previsous seasons.

There will always be games like that. We did enough to win it. Sess is finally showing quality, but only annoying his is appalling record in front of goal, and his unerring ability to dive fall over in good positions. Fletch was good first half. Yacob was outstanding as he has been most of the season when many on this site said he should be disposed of last time around.

Think hard before you dream. The Championship is not a good place to be and with a few signings and return to fitness will put us in a great place for next season.

The crowd never got behind the team today. That is because it did not really matter. And there is probably the difference. The players felt it. Covet your premier league status and build. The Saido money could go a long way and good riddance.

Again here Pulis has shown great management of Saido. Like most of us he could have just left him to fester in a broom cupboard like his sulking deserved. However, he has seen the sense in allowing him re-hab because on form he is a great player.

In Pulis, I at least, Trust!

Foster 7, Dawson 8, Chester 5, GMac 7, Evans 7, Jacob 7, Fletcher 7, Sess 8, McClean 6, Saido 7, Rondon 5. Subs Sick Vic 6, Macmanaman 4, Gardner 7

Talyllyn Baggie:

Saturday was national record day and in sympathy the Albion played as if the needle was stuck from the Norwich game. When I used to play at a very poor level, we always put a full back on each post at corners. On Saturday that would have prevented the first goal, but as we don't play with full backs, I assume that this is overlooked.

I won't dwell on the penalties as I feel that our woeful passing meant that we didn't deserve to get anything out of the game.

We are not renewing our Season tickets next year, to watch performances like that.